ENGLAND received the Treaty of Ghent with feelings of mixed anger and satisfaction. The “Morning Chronicle” seemed surprised at the extreme interest which the news excited. As early as November 24, when ministers made their decision to concede the American terms, the “Morning Chronicle” announced that “a most extraordinary sensation was produced yesterday” by news from Ghent, and by reports that ministers had abandoned their ground. When the treaty arrived, December 26, the same Whig newspaper, the next morning, while asserting that ministers had “humbled themselves in the dust and thereby brought discredit on the country,” heartily approved what they had done; and added that “the city was in a complete state of hurricane during the whole of yesterday, but the storm did not attain its utmost height until toward the evening.... Purchases were made to the extent of many hundred thousand pounds.” The importance of the United States to England was made more apparent by the act of peace than by the pressure of war. “At Birmingham,” said the “Courier,” “an immense assemblage witnessed the arrival of the mail, and immediately took the horses out, and drew the mail to the post-office with the loudest acclamations,”--acclamations over a treaty universally regarded as discreditable. The “Times” admitted the general joy, and denied only that it was universal. If the “Times” in any degree represented public opinion, the popular satisfaction at the peace was an extraordinary political symptom, for in its opinion the Government had accepted terms such as “might have been expected from an indulgent and liberal conqueror.... We have retired from the combat,” it said, December 30, “with the stripes yet bleeding on our back,--with the recent defeats at Plattsburg and on Lake Champlain unavenged.” During several succeeding weeks the “Times” continued its extravagant complaints, which served only to give the Americans a new idea of the triumph they had won.